Saturday, October 11, 2008

Cool Stuff That People Send Me

Damn, I forgot who sent me this stuff. Remind me so I can thank you!

Barbie sent me this pretty nifty album cover art.

I love the colors, even the purple.Here's the cover art for one of my favorite kids' books. It's a whole book starring Boo Boo, one of my favorite cartoon characters and the illustrations are wonderful. Really swell colors. A perfect balance of neutrals with spots of bright colors.

Jesse is very reliable in sending me fine work. Here he demonstrates that he knows exactly what the difference is between girls and guys.And Quinton sent me this Harman-Ising film that proves once and for all that cartoons can be more than mere entertainment.

I recieved some cool stuff yesterday: your Political Candidates Vinyl Toy Collection! I'm amazed at the amount of detail and beautiful painting on these items, John. The metallic accents are solid in color saturation and expertly placed. Love the over-sprays, especially on Obama's face and McCain's liver spots. Hilary's hair coloring, eye make-up and rosy cheeks are perfect, and the use of 'flocking' on her pantsuit is a masterstroke.

These toys are modern masterpieces created with good old-fashioned quality. Great concepts, design, sculpts and production. I hope they are hugely successful.

The two first are from Guillermo Divito, illustrator and director of an argentine magazine called Rico Tipo. The “Divito Girls” were so popular in the '40 and '50 that lead the way in which fashion evolved in Argentina.If you are interested, I can send some clips from another Rico Tipo's artists (as Calé, or Oski).

This is off topic, but I just received the presidential toys in the mail. They are seriously the best designed toys I've ever seen. Great job and thanks! If anyone is still contemplating ordering these, do it! They are the best thing to come out since rubber nipples.

I really like the goofy's spectacular cover. I'm actually practicing painting like that,but with dirty pitchers. Mary Blair painted it I assume; she used to paint the concept art for disney films in like the 70s? 60s? Either way check her out her pictures are beautiful!

The Rico Tipo cover has a very strange style to it. It's done in a way that I can't even describe. Also, is it just me, or is the left foot of the buff lifeguard on the picture below twisted around? And is it possible to look at boo-boo with out going "DAAAAWWWW" at his cuteness?

It seems that the people from argentina (as I am) get easily amazed when our native artists talent is recognized outside our country(the case with rico tipo).I know cartoon magazines where very popular in my country at those times, but now, sadly there is produced almost only pseudo-anime and super heroes magazines and sort of that...

Divito was a great Argentine artist. His characters were incredibly successful, and his girls became a prototype of beauty in our country (oh,by the way, I´m argentine). Hence the expression "chica Divito" (Divito-girl) used to refer to girls with thin waist and voluptuous curves.

Jhon, in addition to all written about divito, I want to mention that his sense of humor was so great and hilarious as his funny drawings.Althoug Im from near country Argentina, it is easy to recognize a master at first sight. Divito was the one in his country. Not only influenced many argentina comic creators, also PEPO from Chile (that created CONDORITO) also influenced many Spain drawers as the great By Vazquez and all Bruguera staff, that in those 50's years left their kids publishing company and tried the Rio de la Plata humor in Spain. Unfortunatly Franco the dictator did not liked this new humor and censored it. Just delayed this kind of humor for 20 years in spain.

Divito, as Nine mentioned, was the great, but there are many other great comic creators in argentina from that period. The best one was Lino Palacio

Man you are greatest and universal.Rescued to the memory to the master Guillermo Divito and your girls of the Rico Tipo magazine.Great discover for the new generations.Congrats for you & your magnificent blog.